Optimus Extreme SAS SSDs are designed for demanding write-intensive application workloads that need the highest levels of performance and reliability. Examples include financial applications and databases associated with workloads that are time-sensitive and produce results that are critical to the businesses they support. Write-intensive workloads include database logging, data warehousing, high-performance computing (HPC) - especially when the HPC workload supports business decisions such as oil and gas applications - and financial on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applications.